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Dinosaur Studios Experiments

Post by AbsoluteDestiny » Thu Jun 03, 2004 4:33 pm

As some of you may know, around a year ago I secretly became part of an amv studio called Dinosaur Studios. The idea was to make videos that we half wanted to make but would never spend much time because they were such silly or pretentious concepts.

As the studio started producing videos, however, it became clear that there was a lot of fun to be has in making videos are avant-garde, pretentious and self aggrandising as possible in order to see what kind of reaction the amv community would have to them.

It was fascinating seeing the mix of opinions that were given - people trying to interpret the artistic merits of both videos.

The thing with these videos is that, thematically, they are half good ideas. A noir WOfls Rain video is a good idea, just as a trippy technoshock lain video is a good idea. The execution is pretentious to the point of being comic (although I still genuinely like the lain video, in its own silly way)

Of course, if parody is the best form of flattery then I was very flattered by Kamoc's dinosaur studios imitation and the A/V Experiments video made by people on this forum that will be left nameless :) It was an interesting few months. Initially many videos were planned by many members, but once the secret started to be leaked by certain people all that fell through - which was a shame as I was really looking forward to DokiDoki's Dino video.

Anyway, here are the two that I made for your... um.. entertainment.

The encodes were purposefully sub-standard and both videos took a matter or hours (or less) to make:

Dinosaur Studios Experiment: City of the Rain Dogs

Dinosaur Studios Experiment: Wired Hypnosis

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Post by Joykiller » Thu Jun 03, 2004 4:38 pm

I'm getting an error message when I try to d/l these:

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Warning: OpenDir: No such file or directory (errno 2) in /var/www/downloadlocal.php on line 38

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /var/www/downloadlocal.php on line 39

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /var/www/downloadlocal.php on line 39

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /var/www/downloadlocal.php on line 39

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /var/www/downloadlocal.php on line 39

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /var/www/downloadlocal.php on line 39

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /var/www/downloadlocal.php on line 39

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /var/www/downloadlocal.php on line 39

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /var/www/downloadlocal.php on line 39

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /var/www/downloadlocal.php on line 39

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Post by AbsoluteDestiny » Thu Jun 03, 2004 4:43 pm

grrr... let me see what I can do

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Post by Kalium » Thu Jun 03, 2004 4:49 pm

I heard about this. I also heard that Phade was one of the Dinos....

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Post by Voices_Of_Ryan » Thu Jun 03, 2004 5:14 pm

but once the secret started to be leaked by certain people all that fell through

The Dino's are extenct again :(.
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Post by Jnzk » Thu Jun 03, 2004 5:15 pm

Forum Rules wrote:5. Thou shalt only have one user account.
Busted?

:P

Actually I still have those videos saved on my HD somewhere, I thought they were kinda cool. Yes, I'm easy to fool. :roll:

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Post by Kalium » Thu Jun 03, 2004 5:37 pm

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Warning: OpenDir: No such file or directory (errno 2) in /var/www/downloadlocal.php on line 38

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /var/www/downloadlocal.php on line 39
Seems to me that only the first line is really important here. The second one, and the way it repeats, tell me other things not very important here.

Either the file is there under a different name or it got deleted without removing the local link.

As for the repeating second message, that tells me that someone didn't implement exception-handling there. So, instead of a relatively pretty "there was a problem" page (which could concievably automagically report to the mods), we get a PHP error message.

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Post by AbsoluteDestiny » Thu Jun 03, 2004 5:43 pm

It's because the videos were moved from the Leontes user id to mine but the directory structure of the org video server (which I dont have access to at the moment) is based on user id... so the file isnt where the org thinks it should be.

Once I've got the files moved I'll bump the thread.

As for the multiple accounts, it was always known to phade :)

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Post by paizuri » Thu Jun 03, 2004 6:05 pm

AbsoluteDestiny wrote:As for the multiple accounts, it was always known to phade :)
OMG favoritism! :shock:
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Post by Kalium » Thu Jun 03, 2004 6:10 pm

paizuri wrote:
AbsoluteDestiny wrote:As for the multiple accounts, it was always known to phade :)
OMG favoritism! :shock:
I was honestly waiting for that. I managed to avoid making that joke myself, but still.... ((And I still want a response on the rumor that Phade was a dino))

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